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[joculum]

At an art get-together Thursday night somebody brought up the experiments with the color sense shown by chimpanzees and I commented that it was curious that the art made by chimpanzees and elephants is always used to disrespect abstraction; that it would be like dissing auto mechanics because chimpanzees can fit two sticks together securely to reach a banana outside the cage bars.

If we are higher animals, the operative word is "higher." Angels, if they exist, are even higher animals. Complexity counts, though so does simplicity in the right circumstances. The choice is the difference. Or the difference is the difference.

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[utopyr.livejournal.com]

No, no, angels are messengers, that is to say, embodied messages; the body of a message need not be animal.

I've been long disappointed that, although evangelist, the bearer of good tidings, made the passage easily from Greek into English, its twin, cacangelist, the bearer of bad tidings, did not. It might be useful in describing, say, spam.